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The American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) annual meeting was held in Chicago on 18–21 October and included subspecialty days on 18–19 October. Retina 2024 had twenty sections featuring a wide range of retinal diseases and treatments, including age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic macular edema (DME).

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The EADV Congress 2024 which was held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, between the 25th and 28th of September 2024, covered an exciting range of topics in dermatology and venereology and attracted healthcare professionals and industry specialists. The topic of plaque psoriasis was featured in six sessions spanning 56 presentations and 346 ePosters, while hidradenitis suppurativa was covered in three sessions with 31 presentations and 108 ePosters.

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The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2024 was held in Barcelona, Spain on September 13–17, 2024 and included 269 sessions and 2186 abstracts. Its comprehensive program included sessions that could potentially change clinical practice, that highlighted advances in translational cancer science, and fostered multidisciplinary discussions.

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Biomarkers are molecules in your body that can be detected and measured. They are found throughout your body, such as in tissues, blood, and urine.

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Colorectal cancer – often abbreviated to CRC – is cancer that begins in the colon or the rectum. The colon and rectum are found in the part of your digestive system known as the large intestine. The colon is sometimes called the large bowel.

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Aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) deficiency is a rare, inherited, non-progressive neurological disorder that typically manifests in the first year of life. Most patients have a severe, sometimes life-threatening, phenotype.

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You or a family member have been diagnosed with follicular lymphoma (FL). This leaflet gives you some basic information about the condition and helps answer some of your questions.

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Nutrition and healthy eating – for people living with cancer.

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MZL is a slow-growing blood cancer that involves the lymphatic system and a type of white blood cell called a lymphocyte.

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Urogenital atrophy (UGA) is a condition caused by a drop in the level of oestrogen.

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Le cancer de la peau peut toucher tous les types de peau.

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Skin cancer can affect people of all skin types. Even if you have a dark skin tone, you can develop skin cancer.

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You or a family member have been diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). This leaflet gives you some basic information about the condition and may help answer some of your questions.

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Hautkrebs ist die häufigste und zugleich am meisten vermeidbare Krebsart. Anleitung zur Selbstuntersuchung und Ratschläge zur Vermeidung von Hautschäden.

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You or a family member have been diagnosed with Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM). This leaflet gives you some basic information about the condition and helps answer some of your questions.

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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is two different disorders with overlapping features: ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease.

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Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer. It is also the most preventable cancer.

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Asthma is a long-term (chronic) condition in which your airways become inflamed and swollen, often with too much mucus production.

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El asma es un trastorno crónico (de duración prolongada) en que sus vías respiratorias se inflaman e hinchan, a menudo con una producción excesiva de moco.

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This leaflet aims to help nurses answer patients’ questions so that they can support patients using a vacuum erection device (VED) for penile rehabilitation after complex pelvic surgery or pelvic radiotherapy, or to prevent shrinkage due to lack of erections.

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You or a family member have been diagnosed with alpha thalassemia (AT). This leaflet will give you some basic information about the condition and help answer some of your questions.

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You or a family member have been diagnosed with beta thalassemia (BT). This leaflet will give you some basic information about the condition and help answer some of your questions.

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This leaflet informs you about thalassemia screening. Screening means doing laboratory tests to look for a condition before it is noticeable or to see if you are at risk of having a child who is affected with a condition.

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There are three main types of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and large cell carcinoma. In any of these, cancer cells can break away from the lung, travel to another part of the body, and form another tumor.

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This is a type of immunotherapy, using the body’s immune system to fight cancer. It’s sometimes called immuno-oncology (I-O) treatment.

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Cancers are named after the type of cell that becomes cancerous. There are many different cell types in the lungs, so there is more than one type of lung cancer.

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Acute myeloid leukemia, also known as AML, is a cancer of myeloid blood stem cells. ‘Myelo’ means bone marrow and ‘acute’ means that it develops quickly. Normal myeloid stem cells go on to develop into red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets that circulate in your blood. So, AML affects the production of all these blood cells.

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Cholangiocarcinoma is a bile duct cancer. It starts in the lining of the ducts inside and leaving the liver. The hepatic ducts and common bile duct drain bile from the liver to the first section of the small intestine. Bile duct cancers are different from cancers of the gallbladder.

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Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is a rare blood condition. It is most often diagnosed in people over 65 and more often in men than women. There are several different types of MDS, affecting one or more of the different types of blood cell. MDS can sometimes run in families but most people don’t have a family history.

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50% of women go through the menopause transition without consulting a health professional, yet 4 out of 5 women have symptoms. Don’t struggle in silence. Use this sheet to inform yourself, make a note of your symptoms and talk to a doctor. There are lots of treatment options for troublesome symptoms.

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Metastatic prostate cancer is advanced disease that has spread beyond the prostate gland. Prostate cancer starts in the prostate gland, which surrounds the urethra.

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Myeloma is a cancer of the plasma cells, a type of white blood cell that resides in the bone marrow.

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Pyruvate kinase (PK) deficiency is a rare genetic disease that affects red blood cells.

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The prostate gland is below the bladder. It surrounds the urethra – the tube that carries urine from the bladder to the penis.

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A total of 1,912 abstracts presenting the latest advances in cancer treatment were presented at the congress.

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Advances in breast cancer research and therapeutics were the conference topics attracting broadest interest.

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Cardiac imaging, most commonly echocardiography, is used to aid the diagnosis of HCM and to monitor patients after diagnosis.

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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a myocardial disorder defined by ventricular hypertrophy that cannot be explained by another cardiac or systemic disease.

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